Dalston

O Dalston protagonists:
Middle-class social analysts;
which mirror do you look in today?
O sorry I thought you were au fait
with accessorised baggage,
as you design a new hackneyed adage.

Rememberance

The Sleep settles and all lie as fallen crooked statues,
halted in one moment - framed by the greater battle.
Is this what it all aspired to be: the meaning of which only the living can see:
in order to celebrate and mourn a noble cause?
Or is it just a self destructive impulse toward pointless wars?